Jacksons Escape

Today we walked around the area, as most places were closed when we walked there last night. There weren't many people around either - I...

We walked back to the beach area, where Lola enjoyed a paddle, before we negotiated the exit ramp from the stopover - still a squeeze,...

Woke up to another beautiful day - we took a stroll to view the Tapada Grande - water sports / riverside beach. It was so peaceful and...

Woke up to a gorgeous sunrise. We emptied and filled up with water, before leaving the aire. We headed north towards the mountains, over...

Today we took out the bikes and cycled to the 'west side' - along the river, the cobbled side streets and then along the track by the...

There were quite a few people walking past chatting late last night, which looked like a well used route through from the residential...

Had a great sleep, it was a little parking area right on the edge of the village, across from publics loos, and near to the emergency...

This morning we headed to the coast to Portimao marina via the Arade Dam. We managed to park up, and eventually found a path leading to...

We woke up to a beautiful sunrise, although we had to be quick to capture it. At 8am, we heard a bugle, then the church bells chimed. ...

We were parked on a motorhome stopover that was also a lorry park. Lots of lorries must have parked up overnight. We didn't hear them...

We stayed another day in Obidos and chilled. It was a showery day, but did manage to get out later, and visited Mel and Rob again in...

The joy of being parked right next to a huge church you get to hear the bells from at 7am to 10pm, every quarter of an hour. Basically...

We both had an amazing sleep, probably helped by the drinks we had last night - we are such light weights these days. At 6:30am we heard...

We left our spot for the night, and headed to Viana Do Castelo. The sat nav certainly tests Chris as it took us right through the...

Today was the day for Port tasting 😋 We got a taxi into the town, direct to one of the Port Wine Cellars. The taxi‘s Sat Nav was worse...

We had quite a storm during the night; rain, hail, thunder and lightening, right above us - the electricity in the town went out once,...

We had being having problems with our habitaional battery going flat, and made our way to Estarreja, where there was a free stopover, and...

We brought bread rolls from the bread van this morning. We then set off towards Coimbra. We parked up on the stopover in Coimbra, and...

It had rained all day yesterday, and overnight, so it was lovely to see the sun out again this morning, and greeted by a lady peeping the...

It had rained overnight, and continued throughout today. Chris captured the sunrise again today. As we made our way to Tomar, we noticed...